Word: bloomerism
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While graphic novels have educated, entertained and provoked their audience over the course of their brief history, rarely have they inspired hope. Yet, that is exactly the effect of Carol Tyler's Late Bloomer (Fantagraphics Books; 136 pages; $29). Unlike the typical "inspirational" prose book (e.g., the Chicken Soup series), which proffers advice on how to overcome life's challenges, Tyler's book goes one better. Late Bloomer leads by example. Like many women, Tyler put off her personal ambitions for the sake of child rearing. But now, after more than a decade of relative creative fallowness, she returns with...
...Late Bloomer collects Tyler's published and unpublished works from the last 20 years, all of which share a theme uncommon to comix: domesticity. Thankfully these non-fiction vignettes do not constitute moments of adorable "wisdom" from the mouths of babes, or triumphs of motherly multitasking. Rather, the focus stays on the darker side of child rearing and family difficulties, told in the blunt and funny style of the family big mouth. One page, titled "Anatomy of a New Mom" sums up the book's appeal: A mock medical diagram of a baggy-eyed woman nursing a "totally oblivious...
...late bloomer to say the least,” Cusworth recalls. “I was looking at a few Division III schools. My parents actually took me up here, and we kind of did an unofficial tour...[Assistant] coach [Lamar] Reddicks and [assistant] coach [Bill] Holden and even Coach Sullivan came out to a couple of my games. Out of all the Ivy League schools, this was really the only one recruiting me with great consistency...
...record. Buddy Biancalana's passel of hits could be a mystery for the ages. Pitcher Jackson was fanned five straight times and rejoiced: "I tied a record for that?" In the fifth game, the winning team struck out 15 times. Cardinal Reliever Todd Worrell, 26, a late bloomer of two months' standing in the major leagues, struck out the only half-dozen batters he faced. This matched the World Series record of Cincinnati's Hod Eller in 1919 and Baltimore's Moe Drabowsky in 1966, though Worrell's and Drabowsky's achievements must be considered greater than Eller's, since...
Unlike Warrick, Shakur was an early bloomer. Rated the No. 1 high school point guard in the country, Shakur attracted so much interest that Frank felt...